Remote Chief of Staff

Title: Chief of Staff

Department: WES Canada Managing Directors Office

Reporting to: Managing Director, WES Canada

Compensation: CAD127K - CAD163K

Employment Type: Full Time

Location: Remote - Canada (Candidates based in British Columbia, Alberta, Manitoba, Saskatchewan, Ontario, Nova Scotia or willing to relocate)

Who We Are:   

World Education Services (WES) is a non-profit social enterprise that supports the educational, economic, and social inclusion of immigrants, refugees, and international students. For 50 years, WES has set the standard for international academic credential evaluation, supporting millions of people as they seek to achieve their academic and professional goals. Through decades of experience as a leader in global education, WES has developed a wide range of tools to pursue social impact at scale. From evaluating academic credentials to shaping policy, designing programs, and providing philanthropic funding, we partner with a diverse set of organizations, leaders, and networks to uplift individuals and drive systems change. Together with its partners, WES enables people to learn, work, and thrive in new places. For more information about WES, please visit our website at www.WES.org.     

About the Opportunity:: 

The Chief of Staff serves as the Managing Director's trusted advisor and strategic partner, ensuring the effective operation of WES Canada and enabling the Managing Director and WES Canada leadership team to focus on strategic leadership. The role coordinates executive priorities, supports decision-making, facilitates cross-functional alignment, and monitors execution of key organizational commitments, enabling leaders across WES Canada to deliver against our strategic and organizational priorities and commitments.

This role operates across a highly matrixed organization and requires strong organizational awareness, political acuity, sound judgment, and the ability to influence without direct authority. Accountability for functional strategies, operational delivery, and organizational outcomes remains with the appropriate executive and departmental leaders with the Chief of Staff leveraging trusted relationships, the ability to connect information, perspectives and priorities across teams, and a focused on a commitment to outcomes to support WES Canada in realizing its’ strategic and organizational priorities.

What You'll Do: 

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• Serve as a trusted advisor and strategic thought partner to the MD and leadership team by assessing competing priorities, monitoring emerging issues and organizational initiatives, identifying risks, dependencies, and strategic trade-offs, and providing objective analysis recommendations, and escalation support.
  
• Serve as an organizational integrator who works across the MD, Canada Leadership Team, Executive Team, WES Canada Board, and organizational departments to ensure the flow of strategic information, issues, decisions, and materials are effectively managed.
  
• Project manage WES Canada's inputs into Enterprise-level or global board/leadership reporting, in addition to WES Canada Board governance logistics and operations.
  
• Manage the MD's internal and external commitments, including coordinating Board and committee materials, reports, briefing materials, updates, meeting preparation or logistics, and follow-up in partnership with relevant leads, ensuring that materials requiring the MD’s review, input, or approval are planned and prepared in a timely manner.
  
• Oversee and support the development and execution of the MD's annual work plan and WES Canada’s strategic priorities, by coordinating cross functional planning, monitoring progress, reporting results, addressing barriers, and supporting leadership decision-making.
  
• Project manage and provide oversight to selected high-priority strategic initiatives, special projects, task forces, working groups, on behalf of the MD
  
• Oversee the operational work associated with executive reporting and dashboards by working with Finance, Strategy, and departmental leaders to consolidate performance information for executive decision-making and continuous improvement across accountable stakeholders.
  
• Manage the translation and support the integration of Enterprise-wide strategic priorities into Canada-specific execution plans (and vice versa — surface Canada-specific issues upward).